I have an older gaming PC that has an Nvidia GTX 1060. Until I updated it to Kubuntu 26.04 and Plasma 6.6 it was working perfectly. Not exactly a powerhouse, for sure, but decent enough to play games like Horizon Zero Dawn at medium settings.
Since I’ve upgraded, it’s now in a situation where if the GPU is active, there’s no display, or I can use software rendering to get into the desktop, but the GPU can’t do anything. But not both. If I can get to the desktop and search journalctl for kwin_wayland_wrapper, I get an error along these lines:
kwin\_wayland\_wrapper\[2921]: kwin\_scene\_opengl: Error during eglInitialize "EGL\_NOT\_INITIALIZED"
The Nvidia driver is 580.142, which I’ve tried to roll back to a previous one to test if that’ll work, but apt tells me that 580 is literally the only driver available. I have also completely purged and reinstalled the driver, just in case it hadn’t installed properly, but that didn’t help.
Is it fair to say that my GPU is pretty much dead under the new drivers? And if so, will I have to reinstall, either with a previous version of Kubuntu, or more likely switch it across to Arch?
Sorry if there’s any info I’ve not included, I’ve kinda been picking about the internet, trying to figure out what’s gone wrong with it, and don’t really know where to start.
UPDATE:
I gave up rolling around and around trying to repair Kubuntu and have been pondering a move away to another distro. So now it’s running Arch, and I even managed to retain /home.
…and the drivers still aren’t installing properly…
sigh
But I’m mostly putting it down to me not really knowing much about Arch and pacman and such, so my investigations will continue.
Nvidia can eat my entire arsehole though. If I could justify spending out on an AMD card I’d pull that 1060 and set the fucker on fire.
You could try an older distro like Kubuntu 24 LTS, Linux Mint or Debian Stable, which may still have the old kernel and drivers
I actually managed to get the system working, but under CachyOS instead. Still Arch, but I guess they’ve done the work of making sure that all the dependencies are in place.
Within half an hour of installing, I had Horizon Zero Dawn working through Steam, which was nice. Took me a while to get Red Dead Redemption 2 running because I have that one through the Rockstar Launcher, not Steam. But now that’s running really, really well through Lutris.
Cheers!!